Identifier: someworldcircuit01nich (find matches)
Title: Some world-circuit saunterings
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Nichols, William F. (William Ford), 1849-1924
Subjects: Voyages around the world
Publisher: San Francisco, P. Elder and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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ds, whenonly about a third of the way around he somehowfelt that he was getting back. The sensation isall too complex to attempt to analyze it, but isanother illustration of the fact, so baffling in modernrhyme and reason on all fines commercial, political,racial and astronomical that East is West, etc.At any rate the next arm of our journey whichtook us, ticketed through, from England to theContinent, because it was the first stage of the trans-European and trans-Asian course towards China,made us feel on our way home. If these notes,by the way, were to chronicle things which did nothappen, probably such flashes of silence wouldiUuminate the Channel trips and it is but fair to thatsilver streak, so much of a human document, asmen think of tunneling, swimming, or flying it, andso large a portion of mankind drearily toss on itssurface, to say that our various experiences with itfortunately numbered only its sunny, smooth hours.That was auspicious in itself and we reached Brussels (136)
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WATERLOO—BERLIN WAYS with only one thrill en route, and that about gettingDoveresque French into emergency shape for avoid-ing an impending mistraining of om* luggage. Were you really surprised at Waterloo? anenterprising fellow-citizen is said once to have askedthe Iron Duke. No, but I am now, was theanimated reply. And it would be surprising ifanyone could interject any new matter at this lateday into the history or description of that field, overwhich it is only to add to its signal interest to saythat probably even more ink than blood has beenshed. This, however, scarcely affects the grimfascination and fresh interest with which each visitorsurveys it, with the explanation of the guide, fromthe Lion Mound, or goes the round of the pointsassociated with the battle. To stand in such placesas the old chapel of Hougomont, or by the side ofthe graves of those whose bodies rest near where theyfell in the adjoining garden, is instinctively to visual-ize the valor and the crash of the f

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